Man of the Week: Representative Rui

At the 2010 G20 summit, hosted in South Korea, Obama invited the Korean press to ask him a final question at the end of a press conference. Instead, Rui Chenggang raised his hand. “I hate to disappoint you President Obama,” he began, “I’m actually Chinese, but I think I get to represent the entire Asia. We’re one family here in this part of the world.”

The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.